Salesforce has unveiled Salesforce1, Analytics Cloud and the Wear Developer Pack for Apple Watch, the most recent additions to their line of open-source wearable apps. The Salesforce Wear Developer Kit for Apple Watch will leverage Apple’s WatchKit SDK by providing starter projects and design patterns for developers to build upon. The developer pack can be … continue reading
Now that its codebase is finally viewed as stable, OpenSSL is getting a good top-to-bottom once-over in the form of a sweeping audit. It’s been close to a year since the Heartbleed bug sent the Internet into a frenzy over security. It spurred the software industry to rally behind OpenSSL—sending in more developers, revamping the … continue reading
To celebrate its three-year anniversary, Dev Bootcamp is announcing a new initiative to bring more diversity into the technology industry. “We are proud of the progress we’ve made in opening doors and providing much-needed skills training for those who previously knew nothing about coding,” said Anne Spalding, director of Dev Bootcamp’s San Francisco office. “We … continue reading
ZeroTurnaround, the maker of revolutionary developer tools, today announced the release of Optimizer for Eclipse, a free Eclipse plugin that detects and fixes common configuration issues faced by developers using the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to build software. Eclipse is the most widely used IDE by Java developers around the world, but performance hiccups and … continue reading
Bugcrowd, the innovator in crowdsourced security testing for the enterprise, today announced it has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round led by Costanoa Venture Capital. Costanoa is joined by existing investors including Rally Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, and Blackbird Ventures. “As security continues to be a top spending priority for enterprises across … continue reading
SmartBear Software, the choice of more than two million software professionals for building and delivering the world’s best applications, has announced new versions of TestComplete and QAComplete. With this release, TestComplete and QAComplete are now integrated with SoapUI, the most used API testing tool in the world, as well as with SoapUI NG and ServiceV, … continue reading
SanDisk Corporation, a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced contributions to the open source Ceph object, block, and file storage platform that empower customers to take advantage of the full benefits of flash. Today’s news follows the introduction of company’s revolutionary new storage system, InfiniFlash system, which is powered by Ceph open source … continue reading
Docker, Inc., the corporate sponsor of the open platform for distributed applications, today announced the acquisition of Canadian startup Kitematic and its eponymous, popular open source software tool. The Docker experience is enhanced through Kitematic and its graphical user interface (GUI)-driven workflow that automatically installs Docker on a user’s Mac to build, ship and run … continue reading
Sencha, a leading provider of HTML5 desktop and mobile web application development technology, today announced it has acquired the technology mzPivotGrid in response to significantly increasing customer demand. mzPivotGrid is a powerful analytics tool that empowers enterprise developers to build applications that can discover critical insights from massive sets of data. It is built on … continue reading
While Apple was announcing the final set of features for its watch on Monday morning, Wearables TechCon was taking place just 50 miles away. Wearables TechCon attendees were abuzz about the new watch, but not just because they wanted to purchase one: They were excited to see one of the world’s largest company validating the … continue reading
Mendix, the enterprise app platform as a service (aPaaS) company, extended its track record of innovation with the launch of Mendix Model Share. For the first time ever, rapid developers can share live and fully functional application models on the web with just one click, enhancing their ability to collaborate with each other and save … continue reading
Security researches have exposed a software vulnerability in Dropbox’s SDK for Android. The bug could allow hackers to connect apps from a mobile device to their own Dropbox account without a user knowing. The vulnerability, which was discovered by IBM’s X-Force application research team, impacts Dropbox SDK versions 1.5.4 through 1.6.1. “The response from Dropbox … continue reading
